Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lined, grave-faced old Italians come to roll bocce balls for 30? a game in the indoor courts behind the bar, or to drink a poncino (coffee laced with brandy) and play long, silent games of pinochle. But now and then the pinochle stops in mid-meld, and the bocce bowlers push through the swinging door into the bar to stand watching the small stage. Occasionally, as a mark of highest respect, the old men take off their hats...
Although a few composers, among them Ibert, Arthur Honegger and Darius Milhaud, have since written for the saxophone, serious Saxophonist Mule, 56, still feels like a man without a musical country. It pains him to hear of abuses such as those practiced by the rock 'n' roll players who put chewing gum in the sax to dull its glorious tone. Mule notes sadly that even at the Paris Conservatory, where he is professor of saxophone, most of his students graduate into jazz or military music. "I have one mission in life," he says. "That is to make people...
...member of the rock-'n'-roll generation, I suppose I should be accustomed to reading about such tragedies as "Ruin Around a Rebel" [Jan. 13], but this is one tragedy I can hardly push from my mind. I feel nothing but pity for Christine Nystrom and for the wife and children of the man she killed. Why couldn't there have been the usual logical reasons for her behavior...
...good, Achmed! My grandmother's watching on TV." All this and Timbuktu appeared in Thomas' latest color adventure, a grab bag of odds and ends on African superstitions. The oddest was a weirdly effective sequence showing how the Hova of Madagascar dig up their dead each year, roll them in shiny new wrappings and carry them about in a gay shuffle dance before returning them to their graves-a ritual precisely symbolic (though Thomas did not note it) of regular tribal practices among the TV idea men of Madison Avenue...
...Young made his first million by selling short just before the 1929 crash, set up a brokerage firm with an old friend. By picking up securities that looked worthless to most people, then stepping in to run the properties involved, he added another $5,000,000 to his bank roll by 1937. But Young was not merely after money. "Anyone who has an active mind must keep it engaged," he said, "and I want mine engaged in important instead of minor things...